This past September, America stepped up. We poured freezing cold ice water all over each other for a fantastic cause, helping raise awareness and funds to fight back against one of the scariest diseases out there: ALS.

You may have heard that the ALS Foundation received $115 million in donations from the Ice Bucket Challenge this year—which definitely goes to show what can happen when a lot of people give just a little bit. If you wondered where that money is going, the ALS Association already has big plans to put it to good use.

A few of the projects that will get a boost in funding? A team trying to sequence genes of 15,000 ALS sufferers, research aimed at developing better drug treatment, and another project that’s developing gene therapy to slow the spread of the disease in the body. Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, University of California San Francisco and the New York Genome Center are a few of the major hospitals and lab teams that have gotten a chunk of the $20 million the ALS Foundation has already divvied up. And finally, money will also immediately go to help improve the treatment of those living with ALS.

Although ALS Association President Barbara Newhouse says it will likely take much more funding to find a cure for the disease, she also says the influx of money will create immediate impact. “We are tripling the amount annually that we spend on research,” says Newhouse. “We have a sense of urgency, but we also we recognize that we have to be good stewards of the donor dollars as we move this forward as quickly as researchers can research.”